Fantasy flying.
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| Author: | tommy42 [ Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:36 am ] | ||
| Post subject: | Fantasy flight. | ||
Fantasy flying.
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| Author: | Bob Kuczewski [ Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantasy flight. |
Great Graphics Work Tom!!!  Maybe you can help Sam and I (in the Southwest Texas Hang Gliders Club Forum) come up with a new logo for them. Their club is located right in the heart of world record hang gliding territory, and Sam would like a logo that reflects that. We're currently thinking of a map showing the flights, but it's difficult because a logo has to be relatively small. If you've got any ideas or suggestions, please join us in that discussion. By the way, this is exactly the kind of cross-club help that we're trying to foster in the US Hawks. Thanks for joining us Tom!!! 
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| Author: | Bill Cummings [ Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantasy flight. |
Great work tommy42
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| Author: | tommy42 [ Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantasy flight. |
Thanks Bill, my other hobbies (other than flying) are photography and photoshop 
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| Author: | tommy42 [ Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantasy flight. |
IDK Bob, maybe an outline of the state of Texas with a hang glider traversing across it. |
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| Author: | Bob Kuczewski [ Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantasy flight. |
tommy42 wrote: maybe an outline of the state of Texas with a hang glider traversing across it. Good thought Tom!!! Please join in the discussions in the "SW Texas HG Forum Styles" topic inside the SW Texas Hang Gliders Forum. Maybe you could post some ideas there!! Thanks, and welcome to the US Hawks!!
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| Author: | Bob Kuczewski [ Sun Feb 02, 2014 4:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantasy flight. |
Great minds think alike! It turns out they had been using a hang glider over Texas: Attachment: site_logo.gif [ 3.99 KiB | Viewed 9702 times ] But Sam wanted something that showcased all the world records that have been set there. So we went with this: Attachment: site_logo_short_652.png [ 69.9 KiB | Viewed 9702 times ] It's not nearly as artistic as your work above ... but we did it all without photoshop!! If anyone is interested in how to do this ... We started with a list of the destination cities from each flight that I entered as pushpins in Google Earth. Then I rotated the Google Earth view to get a relatively flat perspective (to fit in a banner) that showed all the flights. Then I took a snapshot of the image both with and without the pushpins (exactly the same image otherwise). Then I erased the large pushpins and replaced the locations with a small red dot. I used that image to overlay on top of the original image (the one without the push pins) so the area where the pushpins had been was restored ... that's why they had to be otherwise identical. Then I added the lettering (city names, distances, club name, etc). That was pretty much it except that it wasn't really wide enough for very large monitors. I like banners to span the entire screen, so I had to stretch the image by duplicating some of the sky and space and copying it on to the right (rotating and shifting to match the curvature of the earth). Eventually I got to where the earth had fallen away and it was just the nearly pure black of outer space left. I was able to extend that as wide as I wanted by just filling with that nearly black color. When I get time, I'll try to figure out a way to get phpBB to fill the background with that same nearly black color just where the image is so I can shorten photo and still have it look good on all monitors. I'd like to do that for the RGSA forum as well since that's another place where I used an extra wide image to fill in for wider screens. It took a few hours, but I think it turned out pretty well!!
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| Author: | tommy42 [ Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:34 pm ] | ||
| Post subject: | Re: Fantasy flight. | ||
Cool, love to see the Photoshop play.
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| Author: | tommy42 [ Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:26 pm ] | ||
| Post subject: | Re: Fantasy flight. | ||
Here's one I did with Google earth positioned above Harbison Canyon where I live.
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| Author: | Bill Cummings [ Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fantasy flight. |
Oh gee wiz and I haven’t even figured out how to upload from my new GoPro3 that I got for Christmas.   
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